Significant Tudor Events at Hampton Court Palace

King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace

Henry spent three of his honeymoons at Hampton Court palace.

Henry discovered at Hampton Court Palace that his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, had committed adultery. After being charged with treason and ordered to stay in her rooms, Catherine escaped from her guards and ran to the chapel where Henry was at Mass. She banged on the doors and screamed Henry’s name, only to be captured by the guards and locked up in her room. She never saw Henry again, and was later beheaded at the Tower of London. Her ghost is said to reenact this scene in the Haunted Gallery to this day.

Henry married his sixth and final wife Catherine Parr near the Chapel Royal.